DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Nature - CORRECT ANSWERS a person's inherited traits, determined by genetics
Nurture - CORRECT ANSWERS a person's experiences in the environment
Expectancy Bias - CORRECT ANSWERS The researcher allowing his or her expectations to
affect the outcome of a study.
Single Blind - CORRECT ANSWERS A testing procedure in which the administrators do not
tell the subjects if they are being given a test treatment or a control treatment in order to avoid
bias in the results.
Double Blind - CORRECT ANSWERS When the participants and the psychologists do not
know the purpose of the study
Developmental Psychology - CORRECT ANSWERS a branch of psychology that studies
physical, cognitive, and social change throughout a life span
Heredity - CORRECT ANSWERS The passing of traits from parents to offspring
Adoption Studies - CORRECT ANSWERS research studies that assess hereditary influence
by examining the resemblance between adopted children and both their biological and their
adoptive parents
Longitudinal Study - CORRECT ANSWERS research in which the same people are restudied
and retested over a long period
, Cross Sectional Study - CORRECT ANSWERS a study in which people of different ages are
compared with one another
Innate - CORRECT ANSWERS natural, inborn, inherent; built-in
Prenatal Period - CORRECT ANSWERS The period from conception to birth, usually
encompassing nine months of pregnancy
Neonatal Period - CORRECT ANSWERS The first month of life after birth
Infancy - CORRECT ANSWERS first month -eighteen months
Fetal Stage - CORRECT ANSWERS The third stage of prenatal development, lasting from
three months through birth.
Critical Period - CORRECT ANSWERS an optimal period shortly after birth when an
organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experience produces proper development
Synaptic Pruning - CORRECT ANSWERS A process whereby the synaptic connections in the
brain that are used are preserved, and those that are not used are lost.
Attachment - CORRECT ANSWERS The strong bond a child forms with his or her primary
caregiver.
Imprinting - CORRECT ANSWERS The process by which certain animals form attachments
during a critical period very early in life.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Nature - CORRECT ANSWERS a person's inherited traits, determined by genetics
Nurture - CORRECT ANSWERS a person's experiences in the environment
Expectancy Bias - CORRECT ANSWERS The researcher allowing his or her expectations to
affect the outcome of a study.
Single Blind - CORRECT ANSWERS A testing procedure in which the administrators do not
tell the subjects if they are being given a test treatment or a control treatment in order to avoid
bias in the results.
Double Blind - CORRECT ANSWERS When the participants and the psychologists do not
know the purpose of the study
Developmental Psychology - CORRECT ANSWERS a branch of psychology that studies
physical, cognitive, and social change throughout a life span
Heredity - CORRECT ANSWERS The passing of traits from parents to offspring
Adoption Studies - CORRECT ANSWERS research studies that assess hereditary influence
by examining the resemblance between adopted children and both their biological and their
adoptive parents
Longitudinal Study - CORRECT ANSWERS research in which the same people are restudied
and retested over a long period
, Cross Sectional Study - CORRECT ANSWERS a study in which people of different ages are
compared with one another
Innate - CORRECT ANSWERS natural, inborn, inherent; built-in
Prenatal Period - CORRECT ANSWERS The period from conception to birth, usually
encompassing nine months of pregnancy
Neonatal Period - CORRECT ANSWERS The first month of life after birth
Infancy - CORRECT ANSWERS first month -eighteen months
Fetal Stage - CORRECT ANSWERS The third stage of prenatal development, lasting from
three months through birth.
Critical Period - CORRECT ANSWERS an optimal period shortly after birth when an
organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experience produces proper development
Synaptic Pruning - CORRECT ANSWERS A process whereby the synaptic connections in the
brain that are used are preserved, and those that are not used are lost.
Attachment - CORRECT ANSWERS The strong bond a child forms with his or her primary
caregiver.
Imprinting - CORRECT ANSWERS The process by which certain animals form attachments
during a critical period very early in life.
